Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.
HARUKI MURAKAMIYoung people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
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Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
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